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ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, INC. v. COSTLE

No. 74-C-1698.

439 F.Supp. 980 (1977)

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, INC., Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Great South Bay Audubon Society, Inc., Lyman Langdon Audubon Society, Inc., Moriches Bay Audubon Society, Inc., Save Our Bays Association, South Shore Audubon Society, Inc., and the Long Island Environmental Council, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Douglas M. COSTLE, Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Eckardt C. Beck, Regional Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, Hugh L. Carey, Governor of the State of New York, Peter A. A. Berle, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation of the State of New York, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Department of Environmental Conservation of the State of New York, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

September 16, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. B. Tripp, New York City, for plaintiff Environmental Defense Fund, Inc.

J. G. Speth, Washington, D. C., David W. Plant, New York City, for plaintiff Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

David Sive, New York City, for all plaintiff Audubon Societies c/o Winer, Neuburger & Sive, New York City.

Robert I. Skoy, Mineola, N. Y., for plaintiff Save Our Bays Assn.

William R. Ginsberg, Hofstra University — School of Law, Hempstead, N. Y., for plaintiff Long Island Environmental Council, Inc.

David W. Plant, Lars I. Kulleseid, John W. Schlicher, New York City, for all plaintiffs.

David G. Trager, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., for federal defendants; George H. Weller, J. Christopher Jensen, Warren Llewellyn, Asst. U. S. Attys., Brooklyn, N. Y., Lenore Daly, Deputy Regional Atty., Region II, U. S. E. P. A., Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., Albany, N. Y., for state defendants; Stanley Fishman, Asst. Atty. Gen. in Charge, Water and Air Resources Bureau, Howard A. Fromer, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Olin Harper LeCompte, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

BARTELS, District Judge.

Eight privately funded, non-profit public interest environmental organizations whose members utilize and depend upon the water resources of Nassau and Suffolk Counties ("Bi-County area"), bring this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), its Administrator, and its Regional Administrator for the New York area ("federal defendants") and the Governor of the State of New York, the...

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